PANEL 1
There was just ... nothing. / How much time had passed since everything went dark? There was no way to know. / In vain did I try to call for help. I could not speak ... and even if I could, there was nobody to hear me. / Was I dead? Was I in Purgatory ... or perhaps Hell?

PANEL 2
But then I discovered ... something. Something that could react to my cries for help.

PANEL 3
Gradually I learned to survive here ... it took years, maybe a century or more ... / But at last I created programming that gave me back my body and my senses, to some extent ...